A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.

Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward.

To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.

God is near whether you sense His presence or not.

We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but I do glance through some of them, and some people dont need to be writing, they have something else.